Improvement in clod-fenders for growing plants



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tlNrrnn STATES PATENT FFICE.

LEWIS H. SHULAR, OF GRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOD-FENDERS FORGROWING PLANTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 94,784, dated September 1I, 1869.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern.:

Be it known that I, LEWIS H. SHULAR, of Crawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved Method for Fending Corn or Growing Plants while being Cultivated; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspective view of my self-adjustable rolling or circular elodfender. Fig. 2 represents adjustable spring of same.

A in Fig. l represents my circular or rolling fender; B, the adjustable spring, attached to the fender at B', and to the plow-beam at C.

D represents cross-bars of fender, attached to the rim at a. c', b b, Sac.; E, rim; F, large bar.

B in Fig. 2 represents my spring detached, as viewed horizontally.

My invention consists in a rim fourteen inches (more or less) in diameter, and a curved spring thirty inches in length. The rim has bars running parallel and attached to said rim at their several ends.

I do not limit myself to any certain size of wheel, or material of which it may be con strncted; nor do Iliniit myself to any particular mode of fastening the bars to said rim; but

/Vliat l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is#

The parts, as represented and described herein, and shown by parts A, B, B', C, D, E, F, a a', and b b', substantially as herein set forth.

LEWIS H. SHULAR.

Witnesses:

C.y W. SAPPENFIELD, WM. H. LYNN. 

